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Literacy is fundamental to human development
Literacy is the ability to understand, evaluate, use and engage
with written texts to participate in society, to achieve one’s
goals, and to develop one’s knowledge and potential.
Literacy enables people to live full and meaningful lives and
contributes towards the enrichment of the communities in
which we live. It is also essential for learning, much of which is
mediated through (digital) text.
Literacy difficulties in [country]
•Contrary to regular beliefs, numerous people in [country]
lack the literacy skills required to fully function in modern
society, namely:
•At best they can read simple texts, retrieve simple facts, or
make straightforward inferences; they are not able to deal
with longer or more complex texts, and interpret beyond
what is explicitly stated in the text.
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Pre-primary (0-6)
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primary (6-12)
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Adolescents (12-18)
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Adults (18+)
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Literacy affects all aspects of daily life
Literacy difficulties appear in all age groups and cause
problems from generation to generation. It impacts all aspects
of daily life, from school to employment, and from healthcare
to social life:
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Recommendations:
• ECEC enrollment should reach 95% EU benchmark and
include emergent literacy curricula
• Family literacy programs should make parents aware of
their important role in fostering emergent literacy
development
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Recommendations:
• Initial teacher training should include an in-depth
training about literacy instruction and assessment
• Make every teacher a teacher of literacy: “content area
literacy” has to be taught across all subjects and grades
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Recommendations:
•Struggling readers have a legal right to be supported by
qualified experts
•Support reading engagement and motivation for at-risk
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Adults age [...] to [...]
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Recommendations:
•Adults should have a right to free basic literacy
education
•There should be a strategy for the professionalization of
the adult literacy-teaching workforce
What needs to happen
In order to achieve a fully literate [country], action is required:
Across society
Create partnerships for literacy development between
education and societal players such as municipalities,
businesses, trade unions and NGOs.
Across government
Ministries of Education should develop a joint literacy
approach, actively involving other ministries such as Culture,
Health, Employment and Finance. The same joint policy
approach is needed at the EU level.
Across age groups
Literacy policies should have a lifelong time-span, stretching
from early childhood to adulthood.
Across election cycles
Literacy development and politics move at different speeds.
Sustained political commitment to keep the issue alive in
society is crucial to maintain momentum for initiatives on the
ground.
More information
For more information, including country reports and good
practice examples, go to www.eli-net.eu.
For information on literacy in [country] go to [website
national literacy organization].
© ELINET 2016
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This publication reflects the views of its authors only, and the Commission
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